Day 1
Reliability Engineering Fundamentals
- Basic Principles of Reliability Analysis
- Definitions and classifications of equipment failures.
- Overview of failure modes and mechanisms.
- Role of the Reliability Engineer
Asset Cost Management Introduction
- Definitions of reliability, maintenance & asset management
- The total cost of maintenance
- Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
- Auditing performance
Root Cuase and Analysis Process
- Introduction to RCA methodologies and tools.
- Conducting RCA to determine underlying causes of failures.
- Work Identification and Defect Reporting
- Ask 5 Whys to anaylsis faluires and action
- Case study in conducting root cause analysis and FMEA.
- Process FMEA, Design FMEA, Maintenance FMEA
Day 2
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
- Reliability centered maintenance (RCM).
- FMEA and FMECA
- Design FMEA and Process FMEA
- Physics of failure (PoF)
- Field data analysis
- Fault tree analysis
- Eliminating single point of failure (SPOF)
- Operational hazard analysis
- Looking at maintenance history to analyze failure rates and collect failure data
Laying the Groundwork
- Team-work maintenance, operations, stores
- Corporate asset management expectations
- Asset performance expectations
- The forms of asset failure and degradation
- The causes and nature of asset failure and degradation
- The effects, cost and risks of asset degradation
Day 3
Applying the Value Based Process
- Breaking the cycle of failure and degradation
- Select PM tactics on the basis of costs and risks
- How to determine PM intervals
- Condition based maintenance types and the PF-curve
- The four important reliability functions
- Optimizing spares to support the maintenance program
- Maintenance program cost and risk based justification
Making Reliability Improvement Normal Practice
- Define reliability objectives
- Develop reliability plan
- Implement reliability plan
- Monitor and measure reliability results
Day 4
Ensuring the Continuity of the Value-Based Process
- Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System requirements
- How to quantify chronic failures and losses
- Use Pareto analysis and stratification to focus the value-based analysis
- Quantify losses in life cycle terms
- Reliability Analysis Case Study
Reliability, Maintenance, Asset Management for Failure Prevention
Preventive Maintenance (PM)
- Optimising Preventive Maintenance
- Condition-based Maintenance Intervals
Predictive Maintenance (PdM)
- Overview of predictive maintenance technologies.
- Optimising Predictive Maintenance (Condition Monitoring)
- Repair-Replace decisions
Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Principles of RCM and application in industrial settings.
- Developing RCM plans to enhance equipment reliability.
- Component Failure Data Modelling
Day 5
Supporting Process that Lower Life-Cycle Costs
- Planning and scheduling best practice
- Cost effective man-power and skills deployment
- Performance indicators to drive continuous improvement
Maintenance Contracts
- Maintenance contract types
- Parties involved
- Choosing the right contractor
- Costing the service
- Defining Key Performance Indicators to monitor the performance
- Common Causes of Equipment Failure
Developing the Maintenance Contract
- Vendor management
- The contracting cycle
- Assemble a team
- Assess, determine and specify the required service levels
Outsourcing Considerations
- Introduction to program
- Introduction delegates
- The business impact of maintenance
- Activity on asset matrix